OLD STEAM POWERED MACHINE SHOP 25
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Line shafts and 100 year old leather belting powered by steam run a shop that I put together to depict a typical small machine shop operation of 1920s. This is a time before electric power tools, CNC, & digital read outs. Lindbergh was flying the mail and thinking about a transatlantic solo flight. No. 25 in the series shows boring and sleeving a single cylinder gas engine block, making a wrist pin for the Morris Machine Works vertical engine under restoration, and repairing a cast iron flat belt pulley which will be used as the driven pulley for the large steam engine when it is assigned to run the shops main shaft (next video).
Very interesting machine shop and video. I had enjoyed watching it. I have the same boring machine in my collection. Mine is model 25 RT so I have a smaller 2' x 2' table that rotates manualy. It was a pleasure to watch someone else still using one as an important piece of shop tooling. Mine is pretty much my most important machine to me and my work. So thumbs up 👍👍
Great to see you doing all those operations with the old G&L....Dave
Thank you David for having this Channel and making these videos. Your channel is definitely a bright spot of the RUclips entertainment world.I my book it is the best!
Thanks, glad you could stop in....Dave
My Dad was a tool and die maker from 1934 until 1982. He used to threaten me with severe bodily injury if he EVER caught working in a machine shop!!!!! :-) Thanks for keeping the old ways alive sir!!!
Keeping the past alive Dave - Because of yourself and a few others our heritage will live on. Not only that but future generations will learn from your videos.
What is amazing to me is you show us something different every time! You are just fascinating to watch.
Dave and Tom. The world would be a better place if more young men had the work ethics and attention to detail you guys show. Thanks for all your videos and inspiration.
I like your serie. Regards from Norway.
Nothing better than watching a patient logical person work step by step.Thanks to U tube and dedicated workmen like you we all get a chance to improve our skills
Exactly right, I learn a lot also from every machine shop you tube creator...Dave
Really enjoy youre vedios love the old tools and techniques you guys use learn alot watching fascinating youre doing with this shop and steam look forward to more Thank you
I like your careful scientific caldulations regarding the strength requirements for the supports. They sound about right.
Amazing safety experts that fail to observe or consider the the actual situation.
Remaining calm through the explanation,"ADMIRABLE"
Like this channel. I'll be watching.
love the shop and the ole cool machines
Dave Richard's shop video franchise continues! This is so much better than Star Wars...
It's always a hoot when you post them. Wonderful videos. Thank you good sir!
David, Really great video and content really enjoyed rewatching your videos thanks again for sharing your knowledge, skills, talents, & your videos anxiously awaiting for more videos.!.!.!.
Have enjoyed your channel and its contents. Grew up on a small farm in Indiana with my father being a machinist for Borg-Warner Corp. and having a Blacksmith shop at home. Visiting my Great Uncle's Wheelwright shop as a child gives me an insight into your endever. Greatly adimire and respect your work and efforts to preserve a Steam powered machine shop.
Thanks Philip, for watching and that comment....Dave
Thank you for your time and have work to post these videos. About 50years ago my grandfather ran a small town welding and machine shop that I'm reminded of every time I watch you. I learned more from helping him in that shop than all the rest of my years training. That was about the happiest time of my life! He had me repairing cracked pulleys a lot like you just showed. By the time I was old enough to work in his shop he had switched his line shaft over to an electric motor instead of the hit and miss motor that he'd used originally. It was still there as a backup. Thanks again for the wonderful memories!
Thanks, great comment John.....Dave
very nice job, and I live that little wobble steam engine.
I just watch your video and absolutely loved it. I'm sure I'm going to watch more.
The memories it brought back almost had me in tears. When I left school in 1965 I worked in a maintenance dept of an engineering company. Most of our machines we well past their best. Many were old line shaft driven machines which had been converted to electric motors.
The screw cutting was really interesting, lining up all the features before engaging the lead screw, then getting it wrong on the finish cut and destroying the component and tool. I only did it once as a 15 year old kid before realising just how critical it was.
I'm sure learning on those antique machines, made me a better engineer.
It's a pity I live in the UK because I'd love to spend a day working with you.
Keep up the good work.
John Pate UK
Thanks for watching John, too bad it's not being taught anymore......Dave
Better cracked cast than broke cast! You got it back together and that is what matters!
Like a history lesson every time i watch your videos.
I love " Old School " Technology & metal shaping . And always liked Brazing , now thats an art. Back in the 60's I loved watching my Uncle Nelson brazing, he was the one that taught me how to braze. He was also a talented leader at putting lead on cars as body work. That I never got the chance to learn.
Tourchwork is quite a skill, I don't do enough of it to be that good. It seems like the flux you can buy these days isn't as good....Dave
Hey David. Love your work and love the ticking clock in the background even more. Gives you workshop that lived in feel. Cheers.
Thanks for all the great old technology from back when I was a Youngster, I can relate to all of them.My grandad had a shop a lot like yours,brings back a lot of great memories,THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES...
Glad you like it Mike, how about a story or two?.....Dave
Thanks guys. Enjoyed the video. Really like what you're doing. Was taught framing by journeyman with a contractor's license here in legalistic California. Two by twelves, on sixteen inch centers, decked above and below with one inch tongue groove can hold 250 pounds. If that building fell down, the roof and ceiling would remain intact. Looking forward.
thats what I was thinking....Dave
The other engine really seems to be coming along, nicely!
The big engine didn't need much, We are about ready to start running pipe to it....Dave
Thanks for the answer!
I am really looking forward to seeing that one run on steam.
Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Please keep up the good work. I hope you will not be discouraged by that video thief.
On the other hand: in a twisted way, it's also a compliment to you: "Congratulations, you created videos which are worth stealing."
Anyway, please do keep up the good job: industrial heritage needs to be preserved and guys like you all over the world are doing a brilliant job with that, also documenting the things they do for their contemporaries, and also for posterity.
Came home from work this evening and discovered I was a day late on the newest video you put out. This is by far the best youtube machining channel.
Love watching you guys work
Those horizontal jacks are a great idea!!!! One more great little project for the todo list :)
best channel on you tube. thanks for sharing your amazing shop. love it
Thanks for that vote of confidence Jordan....Dave
I agree with Jordan. You are one of the two machine shop creators on you Tube that I feel are a must see. I follow over a dozen, but you are number one. Just can't get over all of the line shafts and methods that were used to machine the way that you do. Thanks.
What a pleasure to watch your videos. Very interesting and informative.
Can hardly wait to see the teardwn on ur big engine and the line boring job with steam is a wonder to see. love the pulley repair, and would love to have ur advice and knowledge down the road . Great job Dave"your budd".
well, if the road ain't to long, I'll be available...Dave
That's one heck of a line boring set up Dave - nice.
More great footage.
It's about 1940 (pre war) we figure and very small, as HBMs go. I like it for doing bore jobs and heavy milling but I'm making up tooling for it as I go along.....Dave
Nice video Dave! Thanks for taking the time to share
Your so good. enjoyed watching !
Enjoyed watching.
Thanks Randy...Dave
I always enjoy your videos Dave. Takes me back to my grandfather who was a printing press repairman in the '30's before he was killed.
Love the new engine, can't wait to see it running the shop. I've watched every shop video.
You need an apprentice, nothing against your helper Tom, but an apprentice would be the man showing our kids how it is done 40 or 50 years from now.
Yeah, but Tom shows up....Dave
Ha, yeah, I guess that is something. He's just not an apprentice.
Keep up the great videos. :)
Dave Richards and his' cohorts are a class act.
I always look forward to seeing your videos great videos nice shop and I can't wait to see the big boy running the shop!
I know you're busy, glad you got the time to make another vid. Always watching for them. One of these days I'm gonna get back up that way and stop by
do that...Dave
Thank You for all your time doing the videos and keeping steam alive
Thanks James, steam is great power.....Dave
Another great job and a great video, thanks.
Thanks David for this video! It's every time a pleasure to see this old shop running 👍
Thanks, Dave! Excellent video!
Great Video, and am looking forward to seeing the new engine run. Fabulous video, thanks for posting.
Really enjoy and can't wait for your video's.
Just an idea,where you had to add weight to the pulley,if you drilled and tapped 3/8 nc holes through the face where you applied the lead,say 3 each side radially about halfway between the spoke and the rim,the lead would be keyed to the iron.
Really enjoying watching your series,thanks.
You know it's going to be a good day when there is an excellent video like this to watch while having breakfast before heading out to the shop to spend a nice Sunday. Nice to see that customers have found your shop and the work keeps coming in. Let's just hope that there doesn't come too much work so it starts interfering with your own projects. (:
Dave, you just keep getting better and better! I don't think you'll ever top out but I sure want to be here to see you try!
Nice to see your work as when we can thanks keep them coming as you can
Great Work on this Video. All your Video's are Great. I love the Old way (right way) of Machine tool work.
Always enjoy you stuff. Was partners in a 1906 16x48 South Bend and owned a 1906 14x72 Monarch. The South Bend was pretty beat but the Monarch was serviceable and pretty accurate.. Both were converted to 'lectricity tho..
Both great old lathes....Dave
Nice job on that braze weld. I've case iron chunks just kind of "pop" out when heating thin pieces like that. Great video. It's been over 30 years now since I've single point threaded anything. :)
hey man youre the best machining channel on you tube. thanks for posting these vids
Nice video as always. Actually getting better and better.
Add another great video to your column Dave. Thank you so much for making them.
Good to see you, thanks for the video.
Thanks for dropping by again Duncan......Dave
i love cape chisels they work good for getting out broken bolts
Nice work as always Dave.
something's not right here...
how do you only have 16k subscribed to this channel? this is phenomenal. I've been watching Keith fenner, abom79, oxtools and such, which are great, but this is a whole different beast altogether. being able to do jobs of today's machines using the motive force of steam is a higher order of things. keep making videos! they are so good. I am so very jealous of your machines and your plumbing.
Hi Billy: Never enough pipe....Dave
hi just discovered your channel , bl__dy brilliant ,fantastic workshop and very informative I look forward to becoming a regular viewer thank you .
Thanks Steve, glad you are aboard...Dave
Makes my day when you post a new video.
That's funny; I always feel like it's Christmas when I see you've posted a new video. Good repair on the pulley. Can't wait to see the new engine running. Only about a month until the steam show in Sycamore, IL where I get to see some old engines running in person. Regards -
Great work.
Love these videos and I find your shop the most interesting on RUclips . Thanks Dave
Another great video , keep them coming
Excellent Dave.
Nice job Dave.
Nice video. Good camera work. I think your friend Michael Waller might refer to that repair as bronze welding but I'd call it brazing.
I've got him to back off on that just a little....Thanks, Dave
Yet another great video, Dave!
As always a great job, Dave. I never miss seeing your new videos the instant they come out.
Thanks and please carry on.
J.
I really enjoy watching machine shop videos but am really interested in your steam powered shop. Looking forward to the "new" engine running the shop. Greg
Love your shop!
Love your presentations!
Nice job on the fly wheel, I have been a heavy truck mechanic, weld and fabricate shop owner, union Ironworker, and now at 62 a welding instructor. I have had cast iron jobs that the best filler metals would not work but the brass rods would, victory goes to the men with broader knowlege there will aways be a place for brazing in industy. That being said I would always try to TIG weld that thing If it was easier to handle. QUESTION have you ever covered your cast repairs with dry sand to slow down the cool time? Even better is to use pearllite or vermiculite because they both insulate and isulate the part for the air.
Nice machining demonstrations, as usual. That was a bit of an hot angry flame for cast iron. Tip looked/sounded a tad dirty as well (bit hard to tell in the video, tho'). A cooler flame and heating it up more gradually might have avoided drama, to avoid pitting and maybe a flat multi-port nozzle for preheating, and a smaller tip for the brazing. You're right about working from edge to centre: less metal to more metal. But I weld bike frames, so it's a bit of a different ballpark, and I may be talking beyond my pay grade :).
It's an old beat up Smiths torch that should be thrown away....Dave
Looking forward to seeing that big "new" engine running David .Great Channel !
keep up the great work Dave , always look forward to seeing your channel. great content .
David, discovered your fine channel a week or so ago and have been power watching to catch up with the present. At some point you mentioned your boiler draws air poorly in certain weather conditions. Have you considered venting your steam exhaust up the flue through a blast pipe like most steam locomotives do? That would let you control the draft by valving more or less steam through the flue as needed and give your stack exhaust a more pleasing appearance at the same time.
8:40 That's a pretty good idea. Have a feeling we're going to see those horizontal jacks in a lot of other machinists vids soon. :)
They have already been in mine. :-) I use stop blocks and screw jacks all the time for positioning and holding parts. They are especially useful on castings that are irregular. I sure wouldn't want to be without them!
Great work Dave! Always very informative and entertaining!
JIm
Dave, you are an inspiration to all of us home shop machinists. I really like your horizontal jack screws, great idea. I also noticed that you are firing the boiler with coal, Does that give more, longer lasting heat, or ?
Thanks for producing such great videos.
Thanks Herb, Soft coal does exactly what you said. It avoids the "Oh no, we have no steam". But it costs $120/ton.
That's a real workout screwing that sleeve in...
It's not too hard until close to the end, but it's a lot of turns.....Dave
Great job Sir!
Thanks Mike....Dave
shure love that boring mill and them horizontal jacks are sure slick. i'm still hunting for hangers know where a hole line is but can't find the guy lol perseverance i suppose right.
You might try joining the Smokstak forum and put in a "wanted" ad for line shaft parts, all they ask for is a contribution towards the site.....Dave
David Richards I'll have to look into this
Bonjour David,
We can see a small steam machine running at the beginning of your video, are you also repairing or building model machines ?
Never mind, I with faor your next episode :)
Amicalement, Raphaël
Really like watching your videos and the work you do with the old machines. Wonder what the CNC folks think ..... I expect they to would admire your work. :-)
good home made jack idea. I do know your equipment is old but I didn't know until you wrote BC on that large pulley just how old it was . Apparently over 2000 years.
the fastest half hour on utube. Thanks Dave
G'day Dave that was a nice fix on that pulley, watching you do it seems like it's difficult to see exactly where the brazing is going? I'm looking forward to watch the pull down on that bigger engine you have it will be great to see it under steam. Thanks for the video I enjoyed watching it. Regards John
Would love to see that Steam Eng. at start of video hooked to the line shaft ;) LOL
I appreciate your videos. Can you elaborate on the steam engine shown around the 0:30 mark? That's pretty interesting.
Love those intros!
A wooden ceiling will warn you if it starts cracking. This is why they used wood in mining. Just be sure to wear some safety goggles then. LOL You will also notice the belts coming loose.
Great video as usual, Dave, love the content. I miss the whistle in the intro. I have seen small pulleys like that balanced by drilling holes in the heavy side.
Hey Dave, I found this gentleman named Darren Pilton, he's in England I think. He has a video named Steam Driven Workshop. He shows a couple of steam engines in this video. One powers a timber saw mill and the other a machine shop. You might be interested. I know it's England, but I found interesting.
It is interesting, very primitive saw mill. ..Dave
As Spock would say: 'Fascinating'. BTW, Loved this and the music, too :--))))
Hello Dave, curious if you would like to come to a private steam up June 26 weekend. Mid Michigan area.Not sure how to get ahold of you for more details. Traction engines,steam rollers, vertical boiler, stationary engines etc. Bunch of cool gear heads.
Like that opening "music," David!
steve
Like it
Hello Dave. I read in a post below that you pay $120 per ton for coal......OH MAN, I wish it was that cheap here on the west coast, LOL.......I pay $30 for a 50 pound bag !!! And a 50 pound bag doesn't go far when forging heavy. I should buy a dump truck and head your direction, LOL.......